Dreams & Dead Ends

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Contents: Introduction = 3 1 The Golden Age: The "Classic" Gangster Film = 29 Little Caesar (1930) = 36 The Public Enemy (1931) = 50 2 Dark Transformations: The Descent into Noir = 62 High Sierra (1941) = 68 The Killers (1946) = 80 3 The Genre's "Enlightenment": The Stress and Strain for Affirmation = 104 Kiss of Death (1947) = 108 Force of Evil (1948) = 119 Gun Crazy (1949) = 131 4 Going Gray and Going Crazy: Disequilibrium and Change at Midcentury = 145 D.O.A. (1949) = 150 White Heat (1949) = 163 5 Focus on Feeling: "Seeing" through the Fifties = 176 Pickup on South Street (1953) = 186 99 River Street (1953), The Phenix City Story (1955) The Brothers Rico (1957) = 196 Kiss Me Deadly (1955) = 220 6 Contemporary Colorations: The Modernist Perspective = 236 Bonnie and Clyde (1967) = 244 Point Blank (1967) = 254 The Godfather (1972), The Godfather II (1975) and After = 268 7 Toward the 21st Century: Frenzies and Despairs = 276 Once upon a Time in America (1984) = 285 Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) = 293 Appendix 1 Criss Cross: One to "Watch Over and Over" = 307 Appendix 2 Gangster/Crime/Noir/Post-Noir: The Top 14 = 323 Appendix 3 50 Post-Godfather Crime/Noir Films Worth a Look = 328 Appendix 4 Aging Well: 50 Vintage Gangster/Crime/Noir Films = 329 Notes = 337 Selected Bibliography = 355 Index = 361

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